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Dr Anya Crichton, a pathologist and forensic physician, finds that work is hard to come by for the only female freelancer in Northern Sydney.
Dr Anya Crichton, a pathologist and forensic physician, finds that work is hard to come by for the only female freelancer in Northern Sydney. Between paying child support and a mortgage, she's subsidising a court battle " fighting her ex-husband for custody of their three-year-old son. Called in to investigate a teenage suicide, she picks up on similarities between the girl's death and several other recent cases. Patricia Cornwall's forensic fantasies may have cooled, but Fox's morgue-talk promises to plug the gap with a crime debut that nicely marries the personal life of the sleuth with that of the murder victim. Mother love rather than romantic love takes centre stage. EH
(Copyright 2005 Independent Newspapers (UK) Limited)